DISQ012 Czech Stage Design in the World Context

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025

The course is not taught in Spring 2025

Extent and Intensity
1/1/5. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Šárka Havlíčková Kysová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Šárka Havlíčková Kysová, Ph.D.
Department of Theatre Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. Mgr. Šárka Havlíčková Kysová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Theatre Studies – Faculty of Arts
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
there are 6 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
The course is dealing with the opera as a theatrical Genre. Opera formed stage design conventions and determined style of scenography and development of theatrical space. The course is also focussed on the opera direction.

The course is held in Czech.
Learning outcomes

At the end of the course student will be able to:
- understand key terms of opera history as theatre genre;
- understand key terms of musicology needed for complete analysis of opera performance;
- explain priciples of opera staging and other terms discussed in class;
- do thorough theatrological analysis of opera performance.
Syllabus
  • Opera in the 20th Century
  • Introduction to the Opera Direction
  • Czech Opera on the Stage
  • How to stage Janáček?
  • Modern Czech opera, Modern Czech Direction
  • Opera and Direction in Contemporary World
Literature
    required literature
  • ABBATE, Carolyn and Roger PARKER. Dějiny opery : posledních 400 let. Translated by Robert Novotný. Vydání první. Praha: Argo, 2017, 652 stran. ISBN 9788073637002. info
  • VELTRUSKÝ, Jiří. An approach to the semiotics of theatre. Edited by Jarmila F. Veltrusky - Tomáš Hoskovec. 1st ed. Brno: Department of Theatre Studies, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, 2012, 229 s. ISBN 9788021059092. info
    recommended literature
  • BAKER, Evan. From the score to the stage : an illustrated history of continental opera production and staging. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013, xxiii, 439. ISBN 9780226035086. info
  • DI BENEDETTO, Stefano. An introduction to theatre design. First published. London: Routledge, 2012, ix, 222. ISBN 9780415547536. info
  • HAVLÍČKOVÁ KYSOVÁ, Šárka. Stage Metaphors in Verdi's Otello : Miloš Wasserbauer's State Theatre Production (Brno 1967) in the Context of Otello's Staging Tradition. Theatralia. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2016, vol. 19, No 2, p. 29-58. ISSN 1803-845X. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5817/TY2016-2-2. Digitální knihovna FF MU info
  • HAVLÍČKOVÁ KYSOVÁ, Šárka. Teoretické dílo Miloše Wasserbauera v kontextu dobového myšlení o operní inscenační tvorbě (Theoretical work of Miloš Wasserbauer in relation to the contemporary thinking about staging opera). Theatralia. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2017, vol. 20, No 2, p. 69-95. ISSN 1803-845X. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5817/TY2017-2-4. Digitální knihovna FF MU info
  • KERMAN, Joseph. Opera as Drama. University of California Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0520246928
  • WOLFF, Hellmuth Christian. Musikgeschichte in Bildern. Oper - Scene und Darstellung. VEB Deutscher Verlag, 1979.
Teaching methods
presentations, discussion
Assessment methods
Presentation, written test (or oral exam). Pass-fail line is 70%.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught: every week.
Teacher's information
http://divadlo.phil.muni.cz/
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